| MACAULAY | Rose -; novelist who wrote Potterism,The World My Wilderness and The Towers of Trebizond (8) |
| ROSE | Author of novels The World My Wilderness and The Towers of Trebizond (4,8) |
| ROSEMACAULAY | Author of novels The World My Wilderness and The Towers of Trebizond |
| SCOTT | Author of the Raj Quartet comprising The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils (5) |
| CHANTRYPIGG | Father Hugh, a character in Rose Macaulay's novel The Towers of Trebizond (7-4) |
| MINARETS | Slender towers of mosques, having one or more balconies from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer (8) |
| BLACKSEA | 1980 album by XTC featuring the singles Generals and Majors and Towers of London |
| TWO | The - Towers, second volume of The Lord of the Rings (3) |
| ISAIAH | Source of "I am making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert" |
| PRISONS | The Bastille and the Tower of London, historically |
| GALLOWGATETWINS | Nickname of the Bluevale and Whitevale Towers of Glasgow, once the tallest buildings in Scotland (10,5) |
| ECO | "The Name of the Rose" novelist Umberto |
| TRAITORS | ___ Gate: river entrance to the Tower of London, given this title during the Tudor era (8) |
| OFLONDON | According to legend the British Empire will fall if the ravens leave the tower of this city (2,6) |
| OLIVER | ___ Jackson-Cohen, star of films Wilderness and Mr Malcolm's List (6) |
| MAAS | "A Court of Thorns and Roses" novelist Sarah J. __ |
| NIAMH | - - - Cusack, actress who appeared in Heartbeat and The Tower (5) |
| ERNE | Bird of wilderness and loughs (4) |
| KOHINOOR | Famous Indian diamond now housed in the Tower of London (3-1-4) |
| GREATTOM | Famous bell in the tower of Christ Church College, Oxford (5,3) |
